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Message: [QUOTE="LittleDavey, post: 3600241, member: 8255"] What's also been missed is all the OTHER upgrades to sporting facilities across the entire southeast corner. There's a list of 15-20 IIRC, some of which are small but others are quite substantial in their own right. Plus the accommodation facilities for the athletes at Hamilton which is no small feat in itself either, plus transport upgrades etc etc etc... Where are the construction workers going to come from to build all this shit? Where are the materials going to come from with all that huge construction going on at once? At the end of last year most of these projects hadn't even had the [B][I][U]business case[/U][/I][/B] completed yet, let alone detailed design - they are still years away from construction even starting and yet we're just 8 short years away from the Olympics. One or two facilities in isolation are perhaps achievable, but when you're talking about essentially reconstructing most of Brisbane's major sports facilities all at once...you see the problem. There's only so much market capacity. I was at an engineering forum on the Gold Coast at the back end of last year and one of the heads of state development or some such did a keynote on the Olympics and all that's going with it. The list just went on and on and on. Even without this stadium debacle, everyone in the room was looking at each other, scratching our heads wondering how the **** they expect all of this to be done in time. The consensus is, it won't be - not in its initially proposed form. It was a great opportunity for the city initially, but time is really running thin. My best guess is the costs were simply too high in the first place and repeated attempts to make business cases more appealing is leading to the planning of the damn things taking far too long and barely (or not) leaving enough time for design & construction - and that's assuming they can even scrounge up the $$ to pay for it all!! I fully expect the scope of facility upgrades to be wound back significantly over the coming years, this stadium bullshit is just the start of the walk-backs. I don't believe it is possible for this government to deliver what's being promised. [/QUOTE]

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